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EVERY WEEK, WE bring you a round-up of the best longreads of the past seven days in Sitdown Sunday.
And now, every weeknight, we bring you an evening longread to enjoy which will help you to escape the news cycle.
We’ll be keeping an eye on new longreads and digging back into the archives for some classics.
From BTS to Parasite, Korean entertainment is having a blockbuster few years. Here’s a look at how it got to this point.
(Financial Times, approx 10 mins reading time)
But if the success of Squid Game illustrates the potential for Korean content to captivate global audiences, it has also crystallised a wider dilemma for Korean entertainment companies: how to move from producing content that performs well on foreign platforms such as Netflix or Apple Music to growing its own platforms so that they can emerge as global players in their own right. “Squid Game showed the world the quality of South Korean content, but creating a global platform is a different story,” says Chan Lee of Petra Capital Management, which has investments in the Korean entertainment industry. “The immediate goal [of these companies] should be to be treated as more than just subcontractors.
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Gotta listen to this for the next 365 days now and it will probably be on Toy Show in November. Good luck to them.
Not my cup of tea, not sure if it’s just not good, or I’m just too old. I’ll go with the latter.
Anyway, they’ve done more with their life already than I have… fair play to them. I don’t really get it. But I’ll go outside and shout and some clouds or something.
@Rafa C: Not sure you can complain when you have so many choices in front of you.
Flipping class! Fair play to them all.
it’s a banger of a tune. My mates put me on to it and now my seven year old loves it too
Oh no!
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